someone selling bitsavers cd's on ebay?

Jim Battle frustum at pacbell.net
Sat Jan 24 11:21:02 CST 2009


I just noticed this:

     http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmariamarkham

Considering some of the odd groupings (eg DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION 
AND OSBORNE DOCUMENTS), it seems like this person is perhaps not putting 
a lot of effort into this or isn't knowledgeable.  And if they aren't 
either of those, what are the odds they'd bother collecting and scanning 
these materials?

On the one hand you can argue: they are just offering a service for 
people who can't download large volumes of documents.  On the other 
hand, all of us are skating on some thin ice by scanning copyrighted 
material in the hopes that nobody really cares.  It seems like a bad 
precedent for someone to be selling them for profit.


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